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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mohamad Rizki Suluh Adi <riz@its.ac.id>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014090431.2375D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3442F814.D731B74F@its.ac.id>

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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Mohamad Rizki Suluh Adi wrote:

> We are a group of people who build a computer network base on FreeBSD
> server.
> Yesterday, we add a new package into our server, called sudo. After an
> hour or two,
> there's a problem emerge, nobody, who has an account in the server
> without an exception, can log in to the system. Even root.
> As far as we remembered, we didn't make any changed on the server
> configuration file.
> In this few days, we are planning to launch our network for public. So
> we hope you  can
> help us solve this problem (and identify it) in a sort time.

What is the error returned when you try to login?  Does the system console
report any errors?

Looks like someone used their new-found abilities in sudo and corrupted
your password file, or did something equally bad.  Boot to single-user
mode (type -s at the boot:  prompt), mount up / read-write (mount -u /),
then look for damage.

I assume you modified /usr/local/etc/sudoers using `visudo' so that not
just anyone could get full root access using their password? 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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